Valerie O'Rourke Kitts

Give to get, or let go?
What goes around, comes back two-fold;
What simply goes, in the heart of desire,
Goes cold.
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Pale reed writhing
As if in ecstacy or pain,
Once kissed by the wind
And caressed by the rain,
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I have a penchant for beauty
in things horrible and ugly as death is certain,
an uncontrollable eye that picks the passion out
yet dines on filth and ineptitude;
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Great freight train,
King of the Tracks,
Rolling drums and coronet blast,
Fast away clamoring past in the night,
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